SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration –

Overview
SAP HANA Technology & Innovation Network
February 2023

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Motivation

Why does SAP offer SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration?
 SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration
A continuous journey towards openness
HANA Appliance GEN 6
HANA Appliance GEN3
HANA TDI, Phase 6
HANA TDI, Phase 4 (ramp-up)
„2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
Intel Xeon EX E7 v3 CPU
HANA Appliance GEN 5 processors“ & „Intel Optane
TDI Phase 4: HANA on HANA TDI, Phase 5 (*) DC Persistent Memory“
IBM Power Systems ramp-up Intel Xeon SP E7 v5, & virtual PMEM with
POWER8/9 CPU POWER9
HANA TDI, Phase 4 GA TDI Phase 5 TDI Phase 6
HANA Appliance GEN 4
TDI Phase 4: HANA on
HANA Appliance GEN 2
Intel Xeon EX E7 v4 CPU
IBM Power Systems in
Intel Xeon EX E7 v2 CPU
General Availability (SPS11)
HANA TDI Phase 2, Phase 3
TDI Phase 2: Shared Enterprise
Networking
TDI Phase 3: Entry-level HANA
E5 servers
HANA Appliance GEN 1 HANA TDI Phase 1
Shared Enterprise Storage
Intel Xeon EX E7 v1
CPU Today:
Hundreds of certified SAP
HANA configurations ready to
meet every customer use case
and budget needs!

2011/2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017/2018 2019

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 SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration
A variety of configuration choices, scaling from very small servers to very large clusters
12 Petabyte Data Warehouse with SAP HANA  Guinness world record

Single Server Scale Out Cluster Cloud Deployment

• 2 CPU 128GB to 32 CPU 24TB
• Single SAP HANA deployments for
data marts or accelerators with performance
demands (Socket to Memory ratio)
• Support for high availability
and disaster recovery
• 2 to n servers per cluster
• Each server is either 4 CPU/3TB or 8
CPU/6TB (OLAP), 12TB (OLTP (*)
• Largest certified configuration: 112 servers
• Largest tested configuration: 250+ servers
• Support for high availability
and disaster recovery
• SAP HANA instances can be deployed
to Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba etc.
• SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
• SAP HANA Cloud Platform
• Integration option in on-premise
operation (IaaS) e.g. disaster recovery

(*)
Note: S4H in scale-out is supported for on-premises only for customers with system sizes that are otherwise not reachable. Minimal node size for S4H cluster is 8s, 12TB
(or larger nodes) and maximum cluster size is limited to 4 nodes. See SAP Note 2408419 - SAP S/4HANA Multi-node support for more details.
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SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration
Rich and growing partner ecosystem

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SAP HANA – Started as an Appliance

▪ Classic software delivery ▪ Appliance delivery

on-premise solutions kind of “SaaS on-site customer”
– SAP ships only the software – SAP defines the solution together with its partners
– Customer is responsible for entire product lifecycle – SAP & partners control product lifecycle

Setup/ Consulting Setup / Consulting

SAP Development Software and Licenses SAP Development Software and Licenses

Appliance Operation Concepts

Support Support
(Software, Maintenance and (Software, Maintenance and
Infrastructure) Infrastructure)

Operation Operation *

HW- and Technology

Infrastructure Infrastructure *
Partners

Customer’s Partners'
SAP responsibility * Might be outsourced or owned by customer
responsibility responsibility
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 SAP HANA Appliance Delivery Model
Pros and Cons

The appliance delivery of SAP HANA is pretty comfortable, …

• Standardized and highly optimized

SAP
HANA
HANA • Preconfigured hardware set-up and preinstalled software package
HANA
Server
Server
Server
• Fully supported by SAP

Storage

… but, on the other hand, it comes with limitations regarding hardware flexibility. Using appliances may
require changing established IT operation processes.
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Introducing SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI)

SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration offers customers additional flexibility to integrate HANA
into their datacenters.

SAP HANA Appliance: “All in one box” TDI: Custom built solution

Database Database

SAP
SAP
Operating Operating HANA
HANA
System System
Server
Server
Server
Server Node
Node
Server
Node
Node
Server Virtualization Virtualization
Node
Node
SAP HANA
Server HW Directory Server

Appliance
Network Network
Built-in Enterprise
Storage Storage
Storage Storage

 Pre-assembled, pre-installed and pre-configured  Custom assembled hardware, OS, and hypervisor
hardware and software. (optional) from SAP-certified components.
 Complete package certified by SAP  Software installed by SAP-certified engineer
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SAP HANA TDI Phases
Delivered in phases with each phase further opening up flexible deployment options
SAP HANA TDI Phase 1: Shared Enterprise Storage
• Allows customers to leverage their existing enterprise storage
• Customers can combine any supported HANA compute server (either
from HANA on Intel Xeon E7 Appliances site or from HANA on Intel Xeon
E5 Entry-level Systems site) with the storage solution shown on
the Certified HANA Enterprise Storage site to maximize their IT landscape
efficiency
SAP HANA TDI Phase 3: Entry-level HANA E5 systems
• Announced with HANA 1 SPS09 provides the more price-sensitive
customers with a new choice for HANA compute nodes based on Intel
Xeon E5 commodity hardware
• Check the following site: HANA on Intel Xeon E5 Entry-level Systems for
an up-to-date list of supported hardware vendors and configurations
SAP HANA TDI Phase 5: Customer workload driven SAP HANA
sizing on Intel Broadwell E7, Skylake SP, Cascade Lake and newer
CPU generations, IBM Power Systems
• Supports work-load driven flexible SAP HANA system sizing to help
customers optimally configure their systems for their workload generating
new cost savings. TDI general support is now extended to all Intel
Broadwell E7, Skylake SP, Cascade Lake and newer CPU generations with
8+ cores.
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SAP HANA TDI Phase 2: Shared Enterprise Networking
• Define requirements, reference architecture, and best practices for SAP
HANA networking.
• Enables customers to leverage the existing networking infrastructure and
network components in their data center, such as routers, bridges, and
switches for HANA cluster inter-node and cross-site communication.
SAP HANA TDI Phase 4: Support for IBM Power Systems
• Provides the customers who have standardized in their data centers on
IBM Power Systems with an option to leverage existing infrastructure for an
easier SAP HANA deployments
• SAP HANA on IBM POWER8 systems is available in General Availability.
Refer to SAP Note 2188482 for an up-to-date list of system configurations
supported with HANA on Power).
SAP HANA TDI Phase 6: Innovative new type of memory (Intel DC
persistent memory) and Introducing Virtual PMEM (IBM Power 9)
• Support of PMEM for Cascade Lake servers enables the customer to
extract more value from larger datasets than previously possible by using
large DIMM sizes (128GB, 256GB and 512GB), while lowering TCO at the
same time. Virtual PMEM on IBM Power Systems enables SAP HANA's
built-in fast restart capabilities.
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SAP HANA TDI - Phase 1

Introduction to Enterprise Storage

SAP HANA TDI Phase 1: Enterprise Storage
Preconditions
• With the introduction of TDI with Enterprise Storage, SAP supports hardware setups which comply with the three
prerequisites below.
• Apart from that, no further approval by SAP is required.
1) Use certified hardware only
 Only servers out of the list of certified compute servers are supported
– Same servers as for SAP HANA appliances

2) Use certified storage only

 Storages used for TDI setups must have successfully passed the SAP certification and listed on the HANA HW
Directory – Storage tab
 Certificate states that the storage fulfills SAP HANA’s requirements for data throughput and latency times
 15+ storage partners with dozens of certified storage families (as of Sep, 2016)

3) Let only certified person(s) do the SAP HANA software installation

 Required exam: C_HANATEC_16 (*) - See SAP Training and Certification Shop for details
 The exam needs to be successfully passed for a person to perform SAP HANA SW installations
– SAP HANA hardware partners and their employees do not need this certificate
– Companies or their employees, who are sub-contractors of hardware partners must be certified to perform HANA SW installations

(*) Check the Recent changes in the SAP HANA Technology certification program 2023 blog for the latest info about HANA installation training by SAP.

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SAP HANA TDI - Phase 2

Introduction to Enterprise Networking

 SAP HANA TDI with Enterprise Network
Preconditions
• With the introduction of TDI with Enterprise Network, SAP supports hardware setups which comply with the prerequisites below.
• Apart from that, no further approval by SAP is required.
• SAP does not introduce any certification of network components for TDI setups. Customers should consider involving SAP
Active Global Support to perform a HANA Go-Live Check prior to going productive.

1) For the SAP HANA computing nodes, use certified hardware only
 Same as with “TDI with Enterprise Storage”

2) In multi-node setups, check the bandwidth available between the computing nodes
 Make sure that the intra-node network of your SAP HANA scale-out solution fulfills the recommended
minimum bandwidth requirements

 Conduct self-managed tests using the Network Test available with HCMT

 SAP does not introduce any additional certification of network components for TDI setups

3) Let only certified person(s) do the SAP HANA software installation

 Same as with “TDI with Enterprise Storage”

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 SAP HANA TDI with Enterprise Network
Important Documents and Tools
• Read SAP’s Network Whitepaper.
• Make sure to run the SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tool (HCMT) to check your network KPIs every time you
change your HANA cluster configuration.

1) Network Whitepaper – Background Knowledge 2) SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tool
 Helps you understand the impact of SAP’s network recommendations on the  Command-line tool for measurement, online analysis service
daily operation of SAP HANA provided by SAP
 Introduction to SAP HANA’s logical network zones: Client Zone, Internal Zone,  Used by hardware vendors, SAP Support, and customers
Storage Zone
 Measures the minimum bandwidth of the intra-node network i.e. the
 Detailed description of the network traffic in typical situations of an application
bandwidth available between the hosts that comprise a multi-node system
scenario
– Does not require SAP HANA SW being installed beforehand
– Which network zones are involved in situations like “data load”, “reporting”,
“backup”, “failover”, “takeover”  Hosts are tested pair-wise. For each pair, two tests are available:
– Unidirectional: Transfer test load from host 1 to host 2, measure
 Technical requirements and recommendations for all network zones
bandwidth
 Available on SCN: HANA Network Requirements white paper – Bidirectional: At the same time, transfer test load from host 1 to host 2
 Complements existing sources of information: and vice versa; measure bandwidth
– Network zones, ports and connections, host name resolution: SAP HANA
Master Guide, chapter 3.3 "The SAP HANA Network“
– Network and communication security: SAP HANA Security Guide, chapter 5
– Network recommendations for SAP HANA System Replication: SCN How-To
Guide

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SAP HANA TDI - Phase 3

Extended Support for Compute Servers with Intel Xeon E5 v2/v3

 SAP HANA TDI Phase 3: Extended Support for Compute Servers with
Intel Xeon E5 v2/v3 CPU
With leveraging Intel‘s E5 technology for SAP HANA in production, SAP supports hardware setups which comply
with the prerequisites below. Apart from that, no further approval by SAP is required.

Basic idea: Leverage Intel‘s E5 technology for SAP HANA cost optimized entry-level system
 Intel Xeon 2 socket E5 26xx v2/v3 with minimum 8 cores per CPU are supported
– For the SAP HANA computing nodes, use certified hardware only as listed in the HANA Hardware Directory
– Homogenous symmetric assembly of DIMMs and maximum utilization of all available memory channels
 Single server systems – scale up only, with systems ranging in size from 128GB to 1.5TB
 Supported as SAP HANA tailored datacenter integrated system
 The sweet spot is around $10K (768GB system, populated with 32GB DIMM´s)
 Let only certified person(s) do the SAP HANA software installation
 Production support for proper sized systems which fulfil the data throughput and the latency KPI´s
 Relaxed HW Specifications for Non-Production system

Restrictions
 No support for Intel Xeon E5 4 socket systems
 No support for SAP HANA scale out solutions based on Intel Xeon E5 compute nodes

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SAP HANA TDI Phase 3: HANA Entry-level Servers based on Intel Xeon E5
Streamlined customer procurement process
A Simple 3 step process to get SAP HANA hardware
(entry systems based on Intel Xeon E5 2 socket systems 26xx up to 1.5 TB)

1. Sizing 2. System Availability 3. System Order

• Customer or SAP business partner • Customer checks on the HANA HW • Customer gets in contact with the
fill in all necessary information into Directory – Supported Intel Systems hardware vendor.
the NEW SAP HANA quick sizer for solutions from their preferred
• The HW vendor translates HANA
(http://service.sap.com/quicksizing). hardware vendor.
sizing results into the right hardware
• The results out of the SAP HANA solution and recommends the system
sizing provide the SAPS (including the customer should order.
CPU, RAM, I/O) requirements for
production systems.

Additional major advantage of this new option:

 Customers and the whole SAP ecosystem are very familiar with SAP sizing tools!
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SAP HANA TDI Phase 3: HANA Entry-level Servers based on Intel Xeon E5
Overview of Quick Sizing Process

Preconditions
– Requires access to the SAP Service Marketplace using a valid SAP customer number

For an initial sizing recommendation, proceed as follows

1 Call https://sap.com/sizing

2 Create a sizing project with the relevant information, such as number of users

3 Get an initial sizing result for CPU, disk, and memory

4 Possibly apply additional guidelines on top

5 Check for sample configurations at https://sap.com//benchmark

6 Provide hardware vendor with Quick Sizer project name and the information whether classic Quick Sizer
or HANA Quick Sizer was used (and additional guidelines, if desired)

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SAP HANA TDI - Phase 4

Introduction to SAP HANA, version for IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA TDI Phase 4: Introduction of HANA on IBM Power Systems

Starting with SPS 11, customers can chose to run SAP HANA on IBM POWER8 (in production).
Compute server requirements
 See Table below for supported POWER8 System configurations (As of Feb, 2017 (*))

POWER8 Minimal cores Maximal cores

Model per LPAR per LPAR

S822 8 20

S822L 8 24

S824 8 24

S824L 8 24
(*) See 2188482 - SAP HANA on IBM
E850 8 32 Power Systems: Allowed Hardware for
an up-to-date list of supported POWER8
configurations, also
E850C 8 48 SAP Note 2230704 - SAP HANA on IBM
Power Systems with multiple LPARs per
E870, E870C 8 80 physical host , and
SAP Note 2218464 - Supported products
when running SAP HANA on IBM Power
E880, E880C 8 96/144‡ Systems

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SAP HANA TDI Phase 4 – Introduction of HANA on IBM Power Systems
Requirements and restrictions

Enterprise storage requirements for SAP HANA on Power Systems

▪ Use certified storage only
o Follow the best practices and storage recommendations described in the SAP HANA Enterprise
Storage white paper
o For an up-to-date list of supported storage vendors, see Certified HANA Enterprise Storage site.

Enterprise networking requirements for SAP HANA on Power Systems

▪ Follow the best practices and network recommendations described in the the SAP HANA Network
Requirements white paper

Software installation requirements for SAP HANA on Power Systems

▪ Let only certified person(s) do the SAP HANA software installation
▪ SAP HANA SPS11 or later release is required.

Restrictions
▪ IBM Power 7+ systems are supported only in non-production (for test and development systems)
▪ For supported Operating Systems see SAP Note 2235581
▪ For LPAR Restrictions see SAP Note 2230704

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SAP HANA TDI: Phase 5
Introduces two important changes:
1. Customer workload-driven HANA system sizing
2. Extended Intel Xeon E7 CPU Support
 SAP HANA TDI Phase 5 in a nutshell

In phase 5, SAP introduces two important changes to the HANA TDI deployment approach:
Change #1: Customer workload-driven sizing

BEFORE: The size of HANA memory determines NOW: SAPS requirements for the specific
the type and number of the processors required customer workload are used to determine the
type and number of the processors required
• Disk size of source database results into HANA RAM (memory) • SAP HANA quicksizer and SAP HANA sizing reports have
size. been enhanced to provide separate CPU and RAM sizing
• Based on the HANA memory size – the processor type and size results in SAPS.
(number of cores) are determined. • Customers share the sizing results with their preferred
• HANA hardware partners certify their systems using this pre- hardware partner to jointly determine the processor type
determined (fixed) core-to-memory ratio. and optimal number of cores needed to run their specific
application workload on SAP HANA.

Change #2: Extended support for Intel E7 CPU processors

BEFORE: Only two top-bin CPUs NOW: All Intel E7 Broadwell, Skylake and
are supported newer CPUs with 8+ cores are supported
• Customers choice is limited to HANA systems with pre-determined • Customers have increased flexibility with the HANA system
processor types and a fixed number of cores and memory sizes sizes, and the processor type and the number of cores used
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 SAP HANA TDI Phase 5: Workload-driven HANA system sizing
Increased flexibility, lower TCO
The newly enhanced sizing approach for SAP HANA enables workload-driven hardware
configurations resulting in increased flexibility and new cost savings for customers
APPLIANCE DELIVERY MODEL HANA TAILORED DATACENTER INTEGRATION (TDI) PHASE 5
Pre-defined HW sizing Flexible HW sizing
(Applies only to newer processor types: Intel Xeon EX E7
▪ T-Shirt Sizing with best in class performance
Broadwell*, Intel Xeon-SP Skylake* and IBM POWER8, POWER9
▪ Highly optimized hardware setup (only top-bin and newer CPU generations.
CPUs)
▪ Tailored customer sizing: System memory and processor sizing
Low Implementation effort are fine-tuned for the specific customer workload
▪ SAP HANA hardware partner translates the sizing results (SAPS,
▪ Pre-configured and pre-installed system setup RAM, CPU, and disk I/O**) into customer- tailored system
configurations using a wide range of CPUs (including lower-end
CPUs, not only top–bin CPUs)
Only hardware is delivered – Sizing and installation remains the
responsibility of customer and/or partner.

*Platinum, Gold, Silver with 8 or more cores

** TDI storage KPIs still need to be met but the I/O sizing takes a higher precedence: If the workload requires more I/O
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than the system has, then the configuration has to be adjusted to meet the higher I/O requirements coming from the sizing
SAP HANA TDI Phase 5: Extended Intel Xeon E7 CPU Support
More choices, more granular HANA system sizes, additional cost savings

Today
 Hardware configurations are based on a fixed core-to-memory ratio per CPU generation providing customers
with optimized performance for generic OLAP and OLTP workloads.

Future with HANA TDI Phase 5

 SAP extends the support for Intel E7 CPUs to include all Intel Broadwell E7, Skylake-SP* and newer processors
with 8+ cores/socket.
 Partners will now be able to build HANA systems using a wide range of CPUs that differ in frequency,
processing power, and most importantly cost.
As a result, supported HANA configurations will include more granular HANA system sizes and scalability – thus
enabling customers to further lower their hardware infrastructure costs by buying only the processing power and
memory required for their specific workload.
 SAP tools provides sizing projection and the hardware vendors translate results into actual configurations.

*Platinum, Gold, Silver with 8 or more cores per processor

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SAP HANA TDI Phase 5: Key Benefits

Customer will benefit from changes introduced with phase 5 of the HANA TDI in several
important ways:
Increased flexibility and lower TCO from ability to use compute nodes with less cores per processor:
▪ With TDI Phase 5 SAP supports the complete Broadwell E7 processor family as well as the Skylake Platinum, Gold and
Silver processor family (8+ cores per processor), Cascade Lake and newer CPU generations and selected IBM POWER8
and POWER9 models (see SAP Note 2188482).
▪ This increased variety of CPU processors will give customers more flexibility when choosing their hardware, also allow them
to cost-optimize their hardware for their specific workload requirements :

More choices, more granular system sizes, and additional cost savings from using the new, workload-
driven sizing approach
▪ The shift to the workload-driven sizing approach for Intel E7 Broadwell, Skylake and newer CPU generations and IBM
POWER8 & POWER9 based HANA systems will determine the maximum RAM capacity for the specific customer
application. The resulting HANA TDI configurations will extend the choice of HANA system sizes; and customers with less
CPU-intensive workloads may have bigger main memory capacity compared to SAP HANA appliance-based solutions using
fixed core-to-memory sizing approach (that’s more geared towards delivery of optimal performance for any type of workload).
NOTE: The SAP HANA appliance solutions & reference configurations will remain unchanged in support of the ongoing SAP
commitment to deliver best in class solutions which are highly optimized, pre-configured and pre-installed.
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Hardware Check Tools

SAP HANA 2.0: HCMT (Hardware & Cloud Measurement Tool) – HCMT replacing HWCCT
◼ Command-line tool, generally available for SAP HANA 2.0
◼ Used by storage vendors, SAP Support, and customers
◼ Measures the data throughput and latency times between the SAP HANA servers and the Enterprise Storage system
- Does not require SAP HANA SW being installed beforehand
- Uses the same libraries for file system access and the same IO patterns as SAP HANA does
◼ Download it from the Software Market Place and upload the results to the SAP One Support Portal
◼ Documented in the SAP HANA Administration Guide
- Contains the latest KPIs
- For latest document changes, see the documentation in the SAP Help Portal and the SAP Note 2493172

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SAP HANA TDI: Phase 6
Introduces two important changes:

- Innovative new type of memory (Intel Optane DC persistent memory)

- Introducing virtual PMEM for IBM POWER9
SAP HANA TDI: Phase 6
Innovative new type of memory (Intel Optane DC persistent memory)
 SAP HANA Native Support for Persistent Memory
Officially Supported in SAP HANA 2.3 (April 2018)

Benefit
Larger memory capacity with high Process more data
performance (vs. DRAM & lower tier Persistent Memory Data Reliability
non-volatile faster starts in real-time at a lower TCO with
storage) improved business continuity

Lower TCO data storage hierarchy

Faster start time delivers less downtime > 4 TB

Increased total memory capacity per CPU
Co-innovation with Intel® leads to first Higher Capacity Transforming
fully optimized major DBMS platform than DRAM the memory hierarchy
Early Adoption Program with key
partners/customers ongoing
Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory available since 2nd April 2019
12.5x
Improvement in startup time*

“SAP HANA is The First Major DBMS Optimized for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory.”
https://discover.sap.com/sap-hana-dc-persistent-memorynew/en-us/index.html

*Internal Benchmark measured with a 6TB dataset in SAP HANA

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SAP HANA Hardware Sizing

Hardware sizing determines the hardware requirements of an SAP

system.

Example: Renting a car

• You need at least 5 seats if you are 5 people.
• You need a large trunk, if you have 3 large bags.
• You need a powerful engine, if you want to transport a heavy load.

SAP HANA Appliances Tailored Datacenter Integration

• Predetermined configurations, reflecting a S • TDI Phase 5 introduces workload-driven
wide range of use-cases. sizing to fine-tune configurations for specific
workloads and use cases and is eligible for
M
• Listed in the SAP HANA Hardware PMEM based use cases.
M
Directory.
• Purchase systems with the optimal number L
• Fixed ratios between CPU cores and main of CPU cores and main memory.
memory. L

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Additional Information Regarding Persistent Memory

Persistent Memory is only available with Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI).

Please see the following links for further information regarding Persistent Memory:
▪ SAP Note 2700084 FAQ: SAP HANA Persistent Memory
▪ SAP Note 2786237 - Sizing SAP HANA with Persistent Memory
▪ What’s new in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04?
▪ SAP HANA is The First Major DBMS Optimized for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
SAP HANA TDI: Phase 6
Introducing virtual PMEM for IBM POWER9

▪ IBM offers Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) on POWER9 based systems

▪ SAP supports vPMEM on POWER9 up to 8 socket the same way physical PMEM is
supported.
▪ SAP HANA's built-in faster restart capabilities can be used also with virtual persistent
memory.
▪ Virtual PMEM does not cover hardware outage, because it uses volatile DRAM.
▪ Reduces downtime for planned downtime (e.g. OS patch)
▪ Please see SAP Note 2055470 for details IBM “Virtual Persistent Memory” (vPMEM)
▪ Please see the IBM blog following link for further information regarding Persistent Memory
related enhancements on IBM Power Systems
Thank you.